Populist reason is political reason itself, not a deviant form.

Evidence

A popular demand is one that embodies the absent fullness of the community through a potentially endless chain of equivalences. That is why populist reason – which amounts, as we have seen, to political reason tout court – breaks with two forms of rationality which herald the end of politics: a total revolutionary event that, bringing about the full reconciliation of society with itself, would make the political moment superfluous, or a mere gradualist practice that reduces politics to administration. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 444

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A class becomes a people when its name outweighs its concept. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 362; The people is constituted politically, not given sociologically. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 443; The people emerges through an act creating new order. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 450 (+3 more)